Propositions and principles of diuinitie propounded and disputed in the vniuersitie of Geneua, by certaine students of diuinitie there, vnder M. Theod. Beza, and M. Anthonie Faius ... Wherein is contained a methodicall summarie, or epitome of the common places of diuinitie. Translated out of Latine into English, to the end that the causes, both of the present dangers of that Church, and also of the troubles of those that are hardlie dealt vvith els-vvhere, may appeare in the English tongue.

THE SEVENTH SORT OF PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IS IN GOD.

I VNto the treatise of Gods omnipotencie, is to be joined the declaration of the knowledge that is in him, being a doctrine verie necessarie; to the end, that the true God may bee seuered from the false: and that from it we may take counsell and consolation.

II Now, this science or knowledge is considered, both in it selfe simplie, when the question is what, and of what sort it is: and also in respect of the things that it doth know.

III By this knowledge, we meane an absolute, and a most cleare knowledge in God, both of himself, and of all things created: whereby he doth not onlie know, all things to bee:

but also the reason, why they are so. And this knowledge is different, from all the sight that men and Angels haue: not by comparison, that it is greater, and theirs lesser: but alto∣gether in the whole nature of it. The which difference wee discerne by these notes.

• 1 That this knowledge is essentiall, and euen the vnder∣standing essence of God.
• 2 That it ariseth not from the outwarde senses, or from the notions that the vnderstanding doth apprehend: by rea∣soning, by joining things together, and by deuiding, or yet from the report of any other: no, not from the knowledge of principles, and causes that are of themselues formed in the vnderstanding.
• 3 That it is neither any habite nor action, nor any thing different from that verie thing that doth vnderstand: that is, from the essence of God, seeing it is moste simple.
• 4 That it vnderstandeth all things at once.
• 5 That it is most certaine.
• 6 That it is alwaies the same.

IIII Now in respect of the things that it doth know; wee affirme, that God doth know al things by himself, & of him∣self:

• 1 Himself, properly and most fullie.
• 2 All things past, present, and to come; euen those things that are casuall.
• 3 Yea, and such things as neither are, nor euer shalbe.
• 4 Euen euill things.
• 5 Yea infinite.
• 6 And euen all the motions of the will, and their issues.
• 7 And not onely by a generall knowledge of generall things, but euen by a most exact and perfect of euerie parti∣cular.

V This knowledge, which in respect of things to come, is called praescience, or fore-knowledge; is not the cause of the existence of thinges: although there is nothing to come to passe, which God did not fore-know that it should come.

VI This knowledge either in whole, or in part, can no creature be capable off,

Defended by IOHN FLORIDVS of Angieu.